A light flexible hand grip and method of making with an inner tubular core of flexible rubber with apertures formed therein and an outer tubular cover disposed over the core with a lighter weight annular flexible foam spacer between the core and outer cover. The filling station comprises a brush box disposed above the bottom sheet, in which several rotatably driven roller brushes are disposed parallel to each other. The pockets consist of two rectangular nets, a front net with a predetermined aperture larger than the diameter of a soccer ball and a rear net with a predetermined aperture smaller than the diameter of a soccer ball.